Notices by Matthias Ott (matthiasott@mastodon.social)

“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”

The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @Wilto👏

https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨

Curators.

✷ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by @henry ✷

With links to posts and tools by
@anarodrigues, @rachelandrew, @adactio, @anildash, @davatron5000, @manton, @robin, and @zeldman
Thank you all for keeping the open web alive! ✊🎉

https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-watch-polar-vortex-collapse-cold-snow-impacts-coming-for-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.

🤩 The latest Safari 26 Beta does not disappoint in terms of #CSS features:

⚓️ Anchor Positioning!
🪄 Scroll-driven animations!
🌯 text-wrap: pretty!
🌈 contrast-color()!
⏲️ progress()!
and more!

And this sentence: “We value the principles of progressive enhancement and separation of concerns.” 😉

Great work, @jensimmons and everyone else involved! 👏

https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/

“Do you think that’s funny?”

“Yes. 😁”

@droidboy @Schepp @btconf @marcthiele Ja was ist denn hier los? 😅 Danke für die lieben Worte, Schepp! 💚 Und schön dich kennenzulernen, Thomas. Ich hör auf jeden Fall mal in deinen Podcast rein – wenn der Herr @pfefferle eingeladen ist, dann erst recht. 😁🙌 Meld dich gerne, falls du mal ein Thema behandeln möchtest, bei dem ich was beitragen könnte. Würde mich freuen! Und weiterhin viel Erfolg mit den Projekten!

Happy New Year! Issue 17 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳

Jump Start 🎆

✨ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by … 🥁 … @lynnandtonic! ✨

https://buttondown.com/ownyourweb/archive/issue-17/

What’s a great open world RPG for a 13-y/o who already played Zelda TotK and Horizon Zero Dawn? (I guess it’s still a bit too early for games like Cyberpunk 2077 or Elden Ring… 😉)

Any recommendations? 🤔

It happened again: update 6 lines of CSS in an older website project == wrestle with Node, nvm, outdated package versions, Gulp, gulp-uglify, gulp-terser, and other stuff just to deploy this tiny change.

All that over-engineered short-term magic is so wildly inefficient in the long term. 😂

My mother told me a story about my grandmother today. When the nazis came to power in Germany, they prohibited certain music to be played. Whenever my grandmother sat down with her Cello while waiting for my grandfather to return home, she proudly played some of this music.

Never stop playing.

Issue 16 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳

Under Construction.

With links to posts, talks, books, and podcasts by @aworkinglibrary, @molly0xfff, @mia, @cabel,
@timbrown, @jimniels, @mkbhd, @davidimel and more!

✨ Personal site of the (every other) week by @robb ✨

https://buttondown.com/ownyourweb/archive/issue-16/

My #CSSDay talk about designing with #CSS now has >11k views on YouTube, which just blows my mind! 🤯 I expected maybe a few hundred max.

I’m so glad it resonated with so many people and seems to hit a nerve. (…and also that I didn't fuck this up. 😂) Thank you! 🙏💚

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su6WA0kUUJE

What are examples of fantastic *home pages* of personal websites? 😍 Any site that really stuck with you? And why?

And what’s some useful advice regarding a great “home” that you would give someone building their site?

I’m asking on behalf of my #OwnYourWeb #newsletter subscribers = sharing is caring 🤗💚

I’m writing a #newsletter called Own Your Web about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the #Web. It took a little work-induced break but the next issue is ready and will go out this Sunday.

If that sounds interesting, sign up here:

https://ownyourweb.site 🤗

If you’re attacking the @internetarchive, you’re not a next-level hacker.

You’re just an a**hole. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re Mozilla’s (unnecessary?) new logo:

Me: “What do you think? What does this look like?”

7-year-old: “A rotated broken M? A flag? A … duck? An ostrich!?”

That logo works really well, obviously … 😬😂